Amy Ma

Generative AI Myths, Busted: An Engineer’s Quick Guide
Artificial Intelligence
A super simple and quick guide to how generative AI works, the myths around it, and why it won’t replace engineers anytime soon.
Amy Ma
September 23, 202510 min read
Trying to Stay Sane in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence
A machine learning engineer’s quiet way of not losing her mind
Amy Ma
June 9, 20254 min read
My Learning to Be Hired Again After a Year… Part 2
Machine Learning
One year later: what I learned still matters
Amy Ma
March 31, 202515 min read
My learning to being hired again after a year... Part I
Career Advice
For anyone job hunting, not just tech folks
Amy Ma
June 23, 202411 min read
Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 2)
Deep Learning
A Comprehensive Survey on Activation Functions, Weights Initialization, Batch Normalization, and Their Applications in PyTorch
Amy Ma
May 3, 202440 min read
Courage to Learn ML: Tackling Vanishing and Exploding Gradients (Part 1)
Artificial Intelligence
Melting Away DNN's Gradient Challenges: A Scoop of Solutions and Insights
Amy Ma
February 5, 202414 min read
Courage to Learn ML: Explain Backpropagation from Mathematical Theory to Coding Practice
Artificial Intelligence
Transforming Backpropagation's Complex Math into Manageable and Easy-to-Learn Bites
Amy Ma
January 17, 202420 min read
Courage to Learn ML: A Detailed Exploration of Gradient Descent and Popular Optimizers
Deep Learning
Are You Truly Mastering Gradient Descent? Use This Post as Your Ultimate Checkpoint
Amy Ma
January 9, 202423 min read
Courage to Learn ML: An In-Depth Guide to the Most Common Loss Functions
Deep Learning
MSE, Log Loss, Cross Entropy, RMSE, and the Foundational Principles of Popular Loss Functions
Amy Ma
December 28, 202314 min read
Courage to Learn ML: A Deeper Dive into F1, Recall, Precision, and ROC Curves
Artificial Intelligence
F1 Score: Your Key Metric for Imbalanced Data - But Do You Really Know Why?
Amy Ma
December 17, 202312 min read